Intelligence, Personality and Genius

This blog collects my postings and publications on IQ, personality and Genius. The Genius Famine, a book written from this blog, is available free at: http://geniusfamine.blogspot.co.uk or can be purchased at Amazon

Thursday, 24 September 2015

What is intuition?

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http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/what-is-intuition-excerpt-from-genius.html
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Does group selection provide a realistic hope for escape from Mouse Utopia?

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If we consider the scenario of Mouse Utopia - i.e. a massive reduction in human fitness due to mutation accumulation due to the removal of t...

Mouse Utopia from mutational meltdown foreseen by Science Fiction

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Thanks to Adam Greenwood for discovering this science fiction short story called Spacemaster, published in 1965 by James H Schmitz - which v...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Psychiatric aspects of Mouse Utopia

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Note: The meaning of 'mouse utopia' can be seen in various posts on my Intelligence, Personality & Genius blog: http://iqpe...
Sunday, 13 September 2015

Use of the imagination in scientific psychology - a personal example

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In saying that imagination is the primary aspect of true understanding, an example might be helpful. When I was working on my book  Psychiat...
Sunday, 30 August 2015

Boy Genius: Childhood signs of high intelligence related to the Endogenous personality

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I have long been intrigued by the fact that I can sometimes tell that a child is of very high intelligence, even when I do not know the age ...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

Two ways of being highly intelligent - Good Genes or Endogenous personality

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The usual way is that someone is intelligent (I mean within a population - I am not talking about the evolution of population differences) i...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

Do you (really) understand intelligence? (Hardly anybody does)

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I have recently been reading the likes of Owen Barfield, Rudolf Steiner and (excerpts from) Goethe on the nature of scientific thinking as i...
Wednesday, 12 August 2015

If humans are recapitulating mouse utopia, what is the approximate timescale for extinction?

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In the Mouse Utopia experiment, an optimal environment with ample food, space, temperature, no predation etc. was created for 8 pairs of hea...
Monday, 20 July 2015

Mutation accumulation and modern Western sexuality

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* If the sexual revolution can briefly be defined as the long-term and strategic legalization, toleration, equalization, and now official a...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Personality is buffered against dysgenic change, compared with average population intelligence

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* In sum: Although both intelligence and personality differences (within a population) are highly heritable - general intelligence is a h...
Tuesday, 7 July 2015

The Endogenous Personality... What does it mean? What its importance?

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* Simply, the inner man - the man whose outlook is inward. And his importance? That this is the type of a genius -- whether a large sclae...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Mutation accumulation, intelligence collapse and the Tower of Babel

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/mutation-accumulation-and-intelligence.html *
Saturday, 4 July 2015

Intelligence should be expressed as IQ Age (in children), because IQ scores expressed on a percentile basis *will* confuse a stupid person (and many people who need to interpret IQ scores are inevitably going to be stupid)

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* I recently heard an actual example of the way that IQ scores, expressed as they currently are - in terms of percentiles, will confuse a s...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

How to tell if someone has the Endogenous personality type - autonomy, motivation and intelligence

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* The Endogenous Personality refers to someone who is inner-orientated: inner-directed, inner-driven, inner-motivated; one who uses inner m...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

A critique of functional brain imaging (1995)

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* This is extracted from an un-published essay I wrote in 1995 named A manifesto for research in cognitive neuropsychiatry , with additiona...
Monday, 15 June 2015

The Endogenous personality - its definition, paradox and evolutionary roots in group selection

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* Endogenous = Inner-generated, arising from within (in contrast to be externally-caused or 'Exogenous') * The Endogenous Perso...

Teen genius is mentor-orientated rather than peer-orientated; befriending parents and teachers and authors - rather than having same-age friends

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* That's it, really... *
Monday, 11 May 2015

Visual hallucinations imply 'whole brain' dysfunction; auditory hallucinations not so much

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* It is well known that 'hearing voices' (when nobody is there) is a common sign of the 'functional psychoses' of schizophr...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Creativity and Christianity

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* I have recently come to regard creativity as second only to love in God's scale of values; perhaps the second-most-important attribut...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Women geniuses - have there been any new ones discovered in the past fifty years?

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* It is a tenet of feminist 'scholarship' that there were women geniuses who were neglected; and a large part of feminist scholarsh...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

What kind of genius for England? (If we could choose.)

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* For me, it would be a  spiritual  leader - in essence a religious leader - who could awaken the true spirits of the English people that a...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Be careful before you wish for more geniuses: you might get what you ask for!

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* What makes you think you want more geniuses in the West; what makes you think they would improve matters? * Of course, only geniuses ...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Genius as a perfect storm of synergystic causal factors; golden ages triggered by a coincidence of synergystic geniuses triggering populaton growth

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* It is possible that genius may be a consequence of a 'perfect storm' of several independent causes coming together rarely. For ex...
Friday, 20 March 2015

What can we, should we, do without geniuses?

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* World historical geniuses have all-but disappeared from Western civilization - that is is simply a factual observation. Either we can c...
Thursday, 19 March 2015

The incidence of genius from a Christian perspective - when geniuses are just too dangerous to be risked

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* Since God is good and mortal life has a purpose, it seems reasonable to assume that the disposition of souls into bodies is not a random ...
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